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This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.

Charles Hurt. "NOT-YET-RUNNING THOMPSON STUMPS IN IOWA", New York Post, August 18, 2007.

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I was operating under the theory that, even though Baker had been responsible for my appointment, I was representing all three minority senators - Baker, Edward Gurney of Florida, and Weicker. If differences arose within the minority there was no question about where my loyalty lay and whose directions I would take, but I believed that I should try to respond to the wishes of Weicker and Gurney in every way possible.

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

Iowa Campaign Speech "Hands Down" - 2007.

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I looked down on a quilt of clouds, bordered on the horizon by the blood-orange streaks of the setting sun. As the steady hum of the engine drowned out the chatter around me, I realized that I would probably be thinking about the implications of Watergate for the rest of my life. For the country, and for me it had been a significant point in time.

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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Some of our folks went to Washington to drain the swamp and made partnership with the alligators instead.

Stephen Rodrick. "The Actor", New York, 2007.

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California

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In hindsight, I have come to believe the discovery of the tapes may prove to be an historic event in more than one way. At a time when the United States government acknowledges that 2 million conversations were overheard by authorized eavesdroppers in a twelve month period, and at least an equal number were being recorded by private dectecies, suspicious spouses, corporate spies, special agents, and blackmailers; at a time when people like me conduct their lives under the assumption that their telephone lines are tapped; and at a time when devices such as the bug-in-the-martini-olive are proliferating, the disastrous consequences that flowed from Nixon’s fateful decision to record White House conversations may serve to awaken the nation to the threat posed to the little privacy that remains to us.

At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee - 1975.

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I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Associated Press. "Fred Thompson wants nation's top job", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 12, 2007.

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The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Marc Caputo. "GOP's Thompson shows his conservatism", Miami Herald, September 14, 2007.

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Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Asked why he had not done more debates - Ryan Sager. "Mr. Sunshine State", The New York Sun, September 14, 2007.

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